I don't know if you remember the Internet divine comedy "Mouse Loves Rice", which once caught fire in the sky?
The song became popular in 2004.
Almost overnight, it topped the pop song charts of major websites. The streets, cars and planes, everywhere singing "I love you, love you, like a mouse loves rice." "It's hard not to hear.
And the creator of this song, Yang Chengang, the fate of this song has also changed.
In 1979, Yang Chen was just born in Wuhan to an ordinary family.
He has loved music since he was a child.
Growing up, after watching Beyond's concert, it ignited the soul of rock and roll in my heart.
So from the age of 15, he picked up the guitar and began to study, and performed with the guitar workshop in major universities in Wuhan and Wuhan performance halls.
In 1998, I was lucky to get the guidance of professors from Wuhan Conservatory of Music and systematically studied professional composition for two years.
After returning from school, I formed a rock band with a few friends.
But simply doing rock and roll, you can't live.
To this end, Yang Chen Gang took his friends to do professional background bands on variety shows such as "Happy Story" and "Lucky Thousands of Homes".
In his spare time, he also goes to overseas travel company cruise ships or bars as a pianist, guitarist and resident singer.
And the song "Mouse Loves Rice" was also composed during this period.
At that time, Yang Chen had just performed in the discotheque, and many admiring audiences came to watch their performance and shouted "I love you like a mouse loves rice".
This quote inspired him to write this song when he went home.
"When I first wrote it, I wrote the climax first, and then I wrote the intro, interlude and colode, almost in one go, and it took about an hour to finish."
Later, Yang Chen just took this song and shared it with friends, and his friends felt that they couldn't do it when they heard it.
So, the song was left idle by him.
Later, the more songs Yang Chen had just written, he sold the song.
In 2002, he sold the "perpetual copyright" of "Mouse Loves Rice" to Beijing musician Tian Chuanjun for 2,000 yuan;
In March 2003, Yang Chengang permanently transferred "Mouse Loves Rice" to Wang Hu, the boss of "Beijing Taige";
In June 2004, he was again transferred to Wuhan singer for 2,000 yuan to vow;
In September 2004, it was transferred to Xiangxiang, the singer of "Feile Records", for 8,000 yuan.
The song was sold 4 times before it flowed online and quickly became popular.
It was precisely because this song was sold to many other musicians that there was a copyright dispute for a while.
But making a fuss does not affect the popularity of the song at all.
How red is it?
According to Competitiveness:
The record began on November 1, 2004, with 185,500 daily searches and 60 MP3 download links. A week later, the two numbers reached 213,900 and more than 800 respectively, far exceeding the popularity of some big-name singers in the same period. At that time, Dao Lang's popular "Lover" had only 57,000 daily searches, while superstar Jay Chou's popular "Qilixiang" had only 80,000 daily searches, less than half of "Mouse Loves Rice".
On November 21, the MP3 searches of "Mouse Loves Rice" on all Chinese websites around the world exceeded the 6 million mark, setting a record for the highest number of clicks on the same song on the Internet in the same period.
In 2005, "Mouse Loves Rice" was named the annual champion song of MP3 by Baidu, and it was also ranked among the "2004 China's Top Ten Internet Keywords" because its total global search volume exceeded 100 million.
And Yang Chengang, as the creator of the song, naturally made a lot of money.
Not only signed "Feile Records" at a sky-high price of 5 million yuan in five years; It also appeared on the stage of the 2006 CCTV Spring Festival Gala and "Happy Camp".
According to Yang Chengang himself, the song "Mouse Loves Rice" made him 170 million in cash.
You know, it was 2005.
Unfortunately, the good times did not last long.
After 2006, as the popularity of "Mouse Loves Rice" gradually tempered, Yang Chengang, who failed to create other popular divine comedy, also fell into the low tide of his career.
In order to save his career, Yang Chengang, whose fame was waning, began to rub the heat everywhere.
For example, in 2007, "star-chasing girl" Yang Lijuan was madly in love with Andy Lau for 13 years, not only abandoned her studies but also led to high debts in her family, and forced her old father to commit suicide by jumping into the sea.
Yang Chen just jumped out immediately.
He claimed that if Yang Lijuan was willing to return to his hometown as soon as possible, he was willing to pay about 30,000 yuan or 40,000 yuan for Yang's father's funeral expenses, as well as Yang Lijuan and her mother's travel expenses.
Another example is 2016, in Huang Jiaju's 54th birthday.
Yang Chen just ran to his grave to sing a song, crying and recording a video to post on his Weibo.
For example, in 2013, the video of Dong Jie and Wang Dazhi, a married woman, was exposed, which became a hot search at that time.
Yang Chen just collided with Wang Dazhi, decisively rubbed another wave of heat, and wrote on Weibo:
"I'm going to sing 'Really Love You' and express my heart for a certain goddess for my brother... You are so beautiful, so that I will be scolded for you! I don't dare to say anything in Sanya! Even more afraid to go out. ”
It's just that with such an unlimited hype, no one is willing to deal with him at all.
Complete one's misery.
Yang Chengang also revealed that during the lowest period of his career, he was also cheated out of tens of millions of assets when he was eager to turn over.
What's going on?
In 2014, a Shanghai eldest sister claimed to be a big man in the circle, saying that she planned to sign Zhang Huimei and Tan Yonglin, but there was a shortage of tens of millions, hoping that Yang Chen could borrow her.
Yang Chen Gang believed it and sold all the houses to the other party for payment.
As a result, after the money was called, the eldest sister deleted him and blocked him, rolled up the money and ran away.
Later, Yang Chen just called the police and arrested his eldest sister, but the money could not be recovered, so he could only admit that he was unlucky.
Today, Yang Chengang is still on the road to becoming popular again, but the public's impression of him is still stuck in the song "Mouse Loves Rice".
I wonder if he can wait until the day when he becomes popular again?
References for this article:
"Sina Entertainment" - Interview with popular Internet singer Yang Chengang: I don't want to be famous
"Competitiveness" – Competitiveness Issue 7 Cover Article: Mice Love Rice
"Sina Entertainment" - "Mouse Loves Rice" Again News Yang Chen just angrily accused Wang Hu of being a liar
"Sohu Entertainment" - nostalgia or hype? Yang Chen just took photos and sang at the Huangjiaju cemetery
"NetEase Entertainment" - Interview with Yang Chengang: Forced by life to write "Mice Love Rice"